highest
\ˈhaɪ.ɛst\
The verdict
“highest” is uncommon French (frequency #95,989 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,989
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Superlatif de high.
Corpus desk
Index FR-highest · highest · French
highest · rank #95,989 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,989
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hina
Nearest frequency peer: hina (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « highest »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hees
hees
4,019 corpus weight
- Henk
Henk
4,017 corpus weight
- herborister…
herboristerie
4,016 corpus weight
- Herzen
Herzen
4,014 corpus weight
- highest
highest
4,012 corpus weight
- hina
hina
4,011 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « highest » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | highest |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈhaɪ.ɛst\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,989 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « highest » en français
Rare enough to double-check
highest is uncommon French at frequency #95,989 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈhaɪ.ɛst\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Superlatif de high.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for highest in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is highest, spelled H-I-G-H-E-S-T.
Definition
- 1Superlatif de high.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).